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Frequent hand washing appears to heighten the risk for irritant contact dermatitis in health care workers, particularly those genetically predisposed to the condition, investigators report.
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The perception of health care risks motivates behaviors in health care workers as well as patients. Several years after the SARS outbreak in China and Hong Kong, Japanese industrial scientists found that health care workers had a high perception of risk for SARS manifest primarily by a desire to avoid patients. At the same time these workers had a low acceptance of risk and felt little personal control.
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In what could be a boon for infection surveillance and treatment programs, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new rapid test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that can identify the bug in two hours.
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Sign up now for AHC Media's upcoming audio conference, The Buck Stops Soon: Prevent CR-BSIs or Pay Up on Thursday, March 26, 2008, from 1 p.m-2:30 p.m. ET.
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The Joint Commission has broadly expanded its emphasis on infection prevention in proposed 2009 patient safety goals that recommend specific strategies to fight a veritable "murderers' row" of health care-associated infections (HAIs).
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Three criteria identify women who would benefit from empiric antibiotics for cystitis.
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The FDA has approved another beta-adrenergic blocker.
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Testosterone in Older Men: Is Low Normal Too Low?, CT Pulmonary Angiography as Good as Ventilation- perfusion Scanning for Suspected Pulmonary Embolus, Vertebral Fracture Begets Vertebral Fractureand
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The 12-lead ECG and lead II rhythm strip in the Figure were obtained from a 59-year old man several days after coronary bypass. He complained of postitional chest pain. How would you interpret his ECG given this clinical context?
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Rosiglitazone (Avandia) implicated in yet another study; Prilosec and Nexium not associated with cardiac events; Anastrozole (Arimidex) shown more effective than tamoxifen for treatment of early-stage breast cancer; antibiotics show no effect on sinusitis; FDA actions.
